"For Step 16 of Reykjavík Runs Us - a social media experiment about the Reykjavík Marathon, Wies Hermans made an important public service game to highlight an unusual feature of Reykjavík swimming pools." - Valgeir Valdimarsson

Poster fABULEUS – call for auditions

Behind the horizon

An installation by Ief Spincemaille in collaboration with Wies Hermans. Starting from a childhood memory, Behind The Horizon wants to visualize the bending of the Earth. It is an attempt to look behind the horizon with a 10.832 km long tube. This tube was carried by 310 volunteers at the Belgian Coast on the 14th of May 2010. The middle of this tube is resting on the ground. Five km to the left and 5 km to the right of this center point, the tube is already 229 cm removed from the earth's surface. A straight tube hanging above a convex earth. A clearly visible and comprehensible image of the bending of the planet.
More information on www.iefspincemaille.com

Theatre poster for the fABULEUS performance by Dirk De Lathauwer. Photograph and design: Clara and Wies Hermans.

Website Werktank

Website for Werktank, an art organisation for new and old media. The Werktank is a bastard child of the Filmfabriek, mutated into a fully new lifeform. Design and development: Wies Hermans.> www.werktank.org

Interactive educational modules as part of the exhibition "Songo" in the Afrika Museum, Nijmegen (Netherlands) — a project by Ann Cassiman. The module was remade in 2011 for the opening of the MAS museum in Antwerp (Belgium). Design and development modules: Ief Spincemaille. Graphic design and interactive software: Wies Hermans.

Short film based on a medieval poem for Chagrin d'Amour, a Behoud de Begeerte production (Antwerp).
Music: Angel (Eric Sleichim, BL!NDMAN) - bariton sax and electronics
Images: Kurt d'Haeseleer, text animations and editing: Wies Hermans.

Peas with beards

O Parleur

For the project O Parleur by kleinVerhaal, an interactive phone booth was built. De booth travelled through 10 neighborhoods in Bruges (Belgium). The recorded conversations were then collected and presented into sound landscapes on the website. Concept and development phone booth: Kurt d'Haeseleer. Coding MAX software for the phone booth and design/development website: Wies Hermans. > www.oparleur.be

Theatre production WeUsAll by Sarah Vanhee was performed in Amsterdam in May and September 2009. Wies Hermans and Ief Spincemaille designed the stage and video installation. A huge shiny black screen fills the stage. At first, the screen hangs in the back of the space, and during 35 minutes, it moves slowly towards the audience, almost unnoticeably. The text that is projected is meticulously manipulated, with subtle rhythmical and graphical changes.

The Woman who Walked into Doors is an opera for soprano, actress and video screen. The main role is played by a singer and an actress, the other characters are represented by text animations on the huge video screen. The screen acts as a window to the outside world. But also as a full partner, as an antagonist of the actors. The personality and behaviour of each character is translated into text layout and animation. An application was developed to control the animations live during the opera.